gatsby Flashcards
(23 cards)
“there must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams - not through her own fault but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion”
chapter 5
“He hurried the phrase ‘educated at Oxford’ or swallowed it, or choked on it”
chapter 4
” ‘You loved me too?’ he repeated, the words seemed to physically bite into Gatsby
chapter 7
“He’s so dumb he doesn’t know he’s alive” - Tom about Wilson
chapter 2
“there was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere”
chapter 8
“he stretched his arms toward the dark water… and distinguished nothing except a single green light… at the end of the dock… unquiet darkness”
chapter 1
“paid the price for living too long with a single dream”
chapter 8
“no amount of fire and freshness can challenge what a man can store up in his ghostly heart”
chapter 5
“can’t repeat the past… why of course you can!”
chapter 6
“making a short deft movement, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand”
chapter 2
“You want too much… I love you now- isn’t that enough?”
chapter 7
“so we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past”
chapter 9
“she bought a copy of Town Tattle” THEN “trying to spread a copy of Town Tattle over the tapestry scenes of Versallius”
chapter 2
“a sudden emptiness seemed to flow now from the windows and the great doors”
chapter 3
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their vast wealth”
chapter 9
“what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams”
chapter 1
“this is the Valley of Ashes - a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat… grotesque gardens…”
chapter 2
“was standing with his hands in his pockets regarding the silver pepper of the stars”
chapter 1
“her life violently extinguished, knelt in the road and mingled her thick dark blood with the dust”
chapter 7
“he had waited 5 years and bought a mansion where he starlight to casual moths”
chapter 4
“Gatsby believed in the green light. The orgastic future that year by year recedes before us”
chapter 9
“nobody came”
chapter 9
“now again it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one”
chapter 5
